If it is the last patch to introduce dedicated termination events for each
location. In this one, events for the stream location are introcued. The old
enum is also removed because it is now unused.
Here, more accurate evets are added. The "intercepted" event was splitted.
In this patch, events for the stream location are reported. These events are
first reported on the corresponding stream-connector. So front events on scf
and back event on scb. Then all events are both merged in the stream. But
only 4 events are saved on the stream.
Several internal events are for now grouped with the type
"tevt_type_intercepted". More events will be added to have a better
resolution. But at least the place to report these events are identified.
For now, when a event is reported on a SC, it is also reported on the stream
and vice versa.
Thanks to the previous patch, it is now possible to explicitly rely on
stream's events to shut it down. The right event is set in
stream_shutdown(), before waking up the stream, via an atomic operation. In
process_stream(), this event will be handled as expected.
Thus, TASK_F_UEVT* are no longer used, but not removed since still usable
for other tasks.
This patch depends on "MEDIUM: stream: Map task wake up reasons to dedicated
stream events".
To fix thread-safety issues when a stream must be shut, three new task
states were added. These states are generic (UEVT1, UEVT2 and UEVT3), the
task callback function is responsible to know what to do with them. However,
it is not really scalable.
The best is to use an atomic field in the stream structure itself to deal
with these dedicated events. There is already the "pending_events" field
that save wake up reasons (TASK_WOKEN_*) to not loose them if
process_stream() is interrupted before it had a chance to handle them.
So the idea is to introduce a new field to handle streams dedicated events
and merged them with the task's wake up reasons used by the stream. This
means a mapping must be performed between some task wake up reasons and
streams events. Note that not all task wake up reasons will be mapped.
In this patch, the "new_events" field is introduced. It is an atomic
bit-field. Streams events (STRM_EVT_*) are also introduced to map the task
wake up reasons used by process_stream(). Only TASK_WOKEN_TIMER and
TASK_WOKEN_MSG are mapped, in addition to TASK_F_UEVT* flags. In
process_stream(), "pending_events" field is now filled with new stream
events and the mapping of the wake up reasons.
shutdown-backup-sessions action for on-marked-up directive does not work anymore
since the stream_shutdown() function was modified to be async-safe.
When stream_shutdown() was modified to be async-safe, dedicated task events were
added to map the reasons to shut a stream down. SF_ERR_DOWN was mapped to
TASK_F_EVT1 and SF_ERR_KILLED was mapped to TASK_F_EVT2. The reverse mapping was
performed by process_stream() to shut the stream with the appropriate reason.
However, SF_ERR_UP reason, used by shutdown-backup-sessions action to shut a
stream down because a preferred server became available, was not mapped in the
same way. So since commit b8e3b0a18d ("BUG/MEDIUM: stream: make
stream_shutdown() async-safe"), this action is ignored and does not work
anymore.
To fix an issue, and being able to bakcport the fix, a third task event was
added. TASK_F_EVT3 is now mapped on SF_ERR_UP.
This patch should fix the issue #2848. It must be backported as far as 2.6.
Instead of directly relying on the backend parameter to limit the number of
connection retries, we now use a per-stream value. This value is by default
inherited from the backend value when it is set. So for now, there is no
change except the stream value is used instead of the backend value. But
thanks to this change, it will be possible to dynamically change this value.
The solution found in commit b500e84e24 ("BUG/MINOR: server: shut down
streams under thread isolation") to deal with inter-thread stream
shutdown doesn't work fine because there exists code paths involving
a server lock which can then deadlock on thread_isolate(). A better
solution then consists in deferring the shutdown to the stream itself
and just wake it up for that.
The only thing is that TASK_WOKEN_OTHER is a bit too generic and we
need to pass at least 2 types of events (SF_ERR_DOWN and SF_ERR_KILLED),
so we're now leveraging the new TASK_F_UEVT1 and _UEVT2 flags on the
task's state to convey these info. The caller only needs to wake the
task up with these flags set, and the stream handler will then finish
the job locally using stream_shutdown_self().
This needs to be carefully backported to all branches affected by the
dequeuing issue and containing any of the 5541d4995d ("BUG/MEDIUM:
queue: deal with a rare TOCTOU in assign_server_and_queue()"), and/or
b11495652e ("BUG/MEDIUM: queue: implement a flag to check for the
dequeuing").
Guarded functions to kill a sticky session, stksess_kill()
stksess_kill_if_expired(), may or may not decrement and test its reference
counter before really killing it. This depends on a parameter. If it is set
to non-zero value, the ref count is decremented and if it falls to zero, the
session is killed. Otherwise, if this parameter is equal to zero, the
session is killed, regardless the ref count value.
In the code, these functions are always called with a non-zero parameter and
the ref count is always decremented and tested. So, there is no reason to
still have a special case. Especially because it is not really easy to say
if it is supported or not. Does it mean it is possible to kill a sticky
session while it is still referenced somewhere ? probably not. So, does it
mean it is possible to kill a unreferenced session ? This case may be
problematic because the session is accessed outside of any lock and thus may
be released by another thread because it is unreferenced. Enlarging scope of
the lock to avoid any issue is possible but it is a bit of shame to do so
because there is no usage for now.
The best is to simplify the API and remove this case. Now, stksess_kill()
and stksess_kill_if_expired() functions always decrement and test the ref
count before killing a sticky session.
log format expressions are broadly used within the code: once they are
parsed from input string, they are converted to a linked list of
logformat nodes.
We're starting to face some limitations because we're simply storing the
converted expression as a generic logformat_node list.
The first issue we're facing is that storing logformat expressions that
way doesn't allow us to add metadata alongside the list, which is part
of the prerequites for implementing log-profiles.
Another issue with storing logformat expressions as generic lists of
logformat_node elements is that it's starting to become really hard to
tell when we rely on logformat expressions or not in the code given that
there isn't always a comment near the list declaration or manipulation
to indicate that it's relying on logformat expressions under the hood,
so this adds some complexity for code maintenance.
This patch looks quite impressive due to changes in a lot of header and
source files (since logformat expressions are broadly used), but it does
a simple thing: it defines the lf_expr structure which itself holds a
generic list of logformat nodes, and then declares some helpers to
manipulate lf_expr elements and fixes the code so that we now exclusively
manipulate logformat_node lists as lf_expr elements outside of log.c.
For now, lf_expr struct only contains the list of logformat nodes (no
additional metadata), but now that we have dedicated type and helpers,
doing so in the future won't be problematic at all and won't require
extensive code changes.
When a stream is caught looping, we produce some output to help figure
its internal state explaining why it's looping. The problem is that this
debug output is quite old and the info it provides are quite insufficient
to debug a modern process, and since such bugs happen only once or twice
a year the situation doesn't improve.
On the other hand the output of "show sess all" is extremely detailed
and kept up to date with code evolutions since it's a heavily used
debugging tool.
This commit replaces the call to the totally outdated stream_dump() with
a call to strm_dump_to_buffer(), and removes the filters dump since they
are already emitted there, and it now produces much more exploitable
output:
[ALERT] (5936) : A bogus STREAM [0x7fa8dc02f660] is spinning at 5653514 calls per second and refuses to die, aborting now! Please report this error to developers:
0x7fa8dc02f660: [28/Sep/2023:09:53:08.811818] id=2 proto=tcpv4 source=127.0.0.1:58306
flags=0xc4a, conn_retries=0, conn_exp=<NEVER> conn_et=0x000 srv_conn=0x133f220, pend_pos=(nil) waiting=0 epoch=0x1
frontend=public (id=2 mode=http), listener=? (id=1) addr=127.0.0.1:4080
backend=public (id=2 mode=http) addr=127.0.0.1:61932
server=s1 (id=1) addr=127.0.0.1:7443
task=0x7fa8dc02fa40 (state=0x01 nice=0 calls=5749559 rate=5653514 exp=3s tid=1(1/1) age=1s)
txn=0x7fa8dc02fbf0 flags=0x3000 meth=1 status=-1 req.st=MSG_DONE rsp.st=MSG_RPBEFORE req.f=0x4c rsp.f=0x00
scf=0x7fa8dc02f5f0 flags=0x00000482 state=EST endp=CONN,0x7fa8dc02b4b0,0x05004001 sub=1 rex=58s wex=<NEVER>
h1s=0x7fa8dc02b4b0 h1s.flg=0x100010 .sd.flg=0x5004001 .req.state=MSG_DONE .res.state=MSG_RPBEFORE
.meth=GET status=0 .sd.flg=0x05004001 .sc.flg=0x00000482 .sc.app=0x7fa8dc02f660
.subs=0x7fa8dc02f608(ev=1 tl=0x7fa8dc02fae0 tl.calls=0 tl.ctx=0x7fa8dc02f5f0 tl.fct=sc_conn_io_cb)
h1c=0x7fa8dc0272d0 h1c.flg=0x0 .sub=0 .ibuf=0@(nil)+0/0 .obuf=0@(nil)+0/0 .task=0x7fa8dc0273f0 .exp=<NEVER>
co0=0x7fa8dc027040 ctrl=tcpv4 xprt=RAW mux=H1 data=STRM target=LISTENER:0x12840c0
flags=0x00000300 fd=32 fd.state=20 updt=0 fd.tmask=0x2
scb=0x7fa8dc02fb30 flags=0x00001411 state=EST endp=CONN,0x7fa8dc0300c0,0x05000001 sub=1 rex=58s wex=<NEVER>
h1s=0x7fa8dc0300c0 h1s.flg=0x4010 .sd.flg=0x5000001 .req.state=MSG_DONE .res.state=MSG_RPBEFORE
.meth=GET status=0 .sd.flg=0x05000001 .sc.flg=0x00001411 .sc.app=0x7fa8dc02f660
.subs=0x7fa8dc02fb48(ev=1 tl=0x7fa8dc02feb0 tl.calls=2 tl.ctx=0x7fa8dc02fb30 tl.fct=sc_conn_io_cb)
h1c=0x7fa8dc02ff00 h1c.flg=0x80000000 .sub=1 .ibuf=0@(nil)+0/0 .obuf=0@(nil)+0/0 .task=0x7fa8dc030020 .exp=<NEVER>
co1=0x7fa8dc02fcd0 ctrl=tcpv4 xprt=RAW mux=H1 data=STRM target=SERVER:0x133f220
flags=0x10000300 fd=33 fd.state=10421 updt=0 fd.tmask=0x2
req=0x7fa8dc02f680 (f=0x1840000 an=0x8000 pipe=0 tofwd=0 total=79)
an_exp=<NEVER> buf=0x7fa8dc02f688 data=(nil) o=0 p=0 i=0 size=0
htx=0xc18f60 flags=0x0 size=0 data=0 used=0 wrap=NO extra=0
res=0x7fa8dc02f6d0 (f=0x80000000 an=0x1400000 pipe=0 tofwd=0 total=0)
an_exp=<NEVER> buf=0x7fa8dc02f6d8 data=(nil) o=0 p=0 i=0 size=0
htx=0xc18f60 flags=0x0 size=0 data=0 used=0 wrap=NO extra=0
call trace(10):
| 0x59f2b7 [0f 0b 0f 1f 80 00 00 00]: stream_dump_and_crash+0x1f7/0x2bf
| 0x5a0d71 [e9 af e6 ff ff ba 40 00]: process_stream+0x19f1/0x3a56
| 0x68d7bb [49 89 c7 4d 85 ff 74 77]: run_tasks_from_lists+0x3ab/0x924
| 0x68e0b4 [29 44 24 14 8b 4c 24 14]: process_runnable_tasks+0x374/0x6d6
| 0x656f67 [83 3d f2 75 84 00 01 0f]: run_poll_loop+0x127/0x5a8
| 0x6575d7 [48 8b 1d 42 50 5c 00 48]: main+0x1b22f7
| 0x7fa8e0f35e45 [64 48 89 04 25 30 06 00]: libpthread:+0x7e45
| 0x7fa8e0e5a4af [48 89 c7 b8 3c 00 00 00]: libc:clone+0x3f/0x5a
Note that the output is subject to the global anon key so that IPs and
object names can be anonymized if required. It could make sense to
backport this and the few related previous patches next time such an
issue is reported.
There used to be two working modes for this function, a single-line one
and a multi-line one, the difference being made on the "eol" argument
which could contain either a space or an LF (and with the prefix being
adjusted accordingly). Let's get rid of the single-line mode as it's
what limits the output contents because it's difficult to produce
exploitable structured data this way. It was only used in the rare case
of spinning streams and applets and these are the ones lacking info. Now
a spinning stream produces:
[ALERT] (3511) : A bogus STREAM [0x227e7b0] is spinning at 5581202 calls per second and refuses to die, aborting now! Please report this error to developers:
strm=0x227e7b0,c4a src=127.0.0.1 fe=public be=public dst=s1
txn=0x2041650,3000 txn.req=MSG_DONE,4c txn.rsp=MSG_RPBEFORE,0
rqf=1840000 rqa=8000 rpf=80000000 rpa=1400000
scf=0x24af280,EST,482 scb=0x24af430,EST,1411
af=(nil),0 sab=(nil),0
cof=0x7fdb28026630,300:H1(0x24a6f60)/RAW((nil))/tcpv4(33)
cob=0x23199f0,10000300:H1(0x24af630)/RAW((nil))/tcpv4(32)
filters={}
call trace(11):
(...)
The number of stick-counter entries usable by track-sc rules is currently
set at build time. There is no good value for this since the vast majority
of users don't need any, most need only a few and rare users need more.
Adding more counters for everyone increases memory and CPU usages for no
reason.
This patch moves the per-session and per-stream arrays to a pool of a size
defined at boot time. This way it becomes possible to set the number of
entries at boot time via a new global setting "tune.stick-counters" that
sets the limit for the whole process. When not set, the MAX_SESS_STR_CTR
value still applies, or 3 if not set, as before.
It is also possible to lower the value to 0 to save a bit of memory if
not used at all.
Note that a few low-level sample-fetch functions had to be protected due
to the ability to use sample-fetches in the global section to set some
variables.
In github issue #1878, Bart Butler reported observing turn-around states
(1 second pause) after connection retries going to different servers,
while this ought not happen.
In fact it does happen because back_handle_st_cer() enforces the TAR
state for any algo that's not round-robin. This means that even leastconn
has it, as well as hashes after the number of servers changed.
Prior to doing that, the call to stream_choose_redispatch() has already
had a chance to perform the correct choice and to check the algo and
the number of retries left. So instead we should just let that function
deal with the algo when needed (and focus on deterministic ones), and
let the former just obey. Bart confirmed that the fixed version works
as expected (no more delays during retries).
This may be backported to older releases, though it doesn't seem very
important. At least Bart would like to have it in 2.4 so let's go there
for now after it has cooked a few weeks in 2.6.
Function arguments and local variables called "cs" were renamed to "sc"
to avoid future confusion. The HTTP analyser and the backend functions
were all updated after being reviewed. Function stream_update_both_cs()
was renamed to stream_update_both_sc()
There's no more reason for keepin the code and definitions in conn_stream,
let's move all that to stconn. The alphabetical ordering of include files
was adjusted.
This also follows the natural naming. There are roughly 238 changes, all
totally trivial. conn_stream-t.h has become completely void of any
"conn_stream" related stuff now (except its name).
This renames the "struct conn_stream" to "struct stconn" and updates
the descriptions in all comments (and the rare help descriptions) to
"stream connector" or "connector". This touches a lot of files but
the change is minimal. The local variables were not even renamed, so
there's still a lot of "cs" everywhere.
This flag is no longer needed now that it must always match the presence
of a destination address on the backend conn_stream. Worse, before previous
patch, if it were to be accidently removed while the address is present, it
could result in a leak of that address since alloc_dst_address() would first
be called to flush it.
Its usage has a long history where addresses were stored in an area shared
with the connection, but as this is no longer the case, there's no reason
for putting this burden onto application-level code that should not focus
on setting obscure flags.
The only place where that made a small difference is in the dequeuing code
in case of queue redistribution, because previously the code would first
clear the flag, and only later when trying to deal with the queue, would
release the address. It's not even certain whether there would exist a
code path going to connect_server() without calling pendconn_dequeue()
first (e.g. retries on queue timeout maybe?).
Now the pendconn_dequeue() code will rely on SF_ASSIGNED to decide to
clear and release the address, since that flag is always set while in
a server's queue, and its clearance implies that we don't want to keep
the address. At least it remains consistent and there's no more risk of
leaking it.
si_retnclose() is used to send a reply to a client before closing. There is
no use on the server side, in spite of the function is generic. Thus, it is
renamed stream_retnclose() and moved into the stream scope. The function now
handle a stream and explicitly send a message to the client.
The stream-interface state (SI_ST_*) is now in the conn-stream. It is a
mechanical replacement for now. Nothing special. SI_ST_* and SI_SB_* were
renamed accordingly. Utils functions to manipulate these infos were moved
under the conn-stream scope.
But it could be good to keep in mind that this part should be
reworked. Indeed, at the CS level, we only need to know if it is ready to
receive or to send. The state of conn-stream from INI to EST is only used on
the server side. The client CS is immediately set to EST. Thus current
SI_ST_* states should probably be moved to the stream to reflect the server
connection state during the establishment stage.
The expiration date in the stream-interface was only used on the server side
to set the connect, queue or turn-around timeout. It was checked on the
frontend stream-interface, but never used concretely. So it was removed and
replaced by a connect expiration date in the stream itself. Thus, SI_FL_EXP
flag in stream-interfaces is replaced by a stream flag, SF_CONN_EXP.
The source and destination addresses at the applicative layer are moved from
the stream-interface to the conn-stream. This simplifies a bit the code and
it is a logicial step to remove the stream-interface.
The conn_retries counter was set to the max value and decremented at each
connection retry. Thus the counter reflected the number of retries left and
not the real number of retries. All calculations of redispatch or reporting
of number of retries experienced were made using subtracts from the
configured retries, which was complicated and didn't bring any benefit.
Now, this counter is set to 0 and incremented at each retry. We know we've
reached the maximum allowed connection retries by comparing it to the
configured value. In all other cases, we directly use the counter.
This patch should address the feature request #1608.
The conn_retries counter may be moved into the stream structure. It only
concerns the connection establishment. The frontend stream-interface does not
use it. So it is a logical change.
To be able to move the stream-interface from the stream to the conn-stream,
all access to the SI is done via the conn-stream. This patch is limited to
the stream part.
Thanks to previous changes, it is now possible to set an appctx as endpoint
for a conn-stream. This means the appctx is no longer linked to the
stream-interface but to the conn-stream. Thus, a pointer to the conn-stream
is explicitly stored in the stream-interface. The endpoint (connection or
appctx) can be retrieved via the conn-stream.
A subtle change of target address allocation was introduced with commit
68cf3959b ("MINOR: backend: rewrite alloc of stream target address") in
2.4. Prior to this patch, a target address was allocated by function
assign_server_address() only if none was previously allocated. After
the change, the allocation became unconditional. Most of the time it
makes no difference, except when we pass multiple times through
connect_server() with SF_ADDR_SET cleared.
The most obvious fix would be to avoid allocating that address there
when already set, but the root cause is that since introduction of
dynamically allocated addresses, the SF_ADDR_SET flag lies. It can
be cleared during redispatch or during a queue redistribution without
the address being released.
This patch instead gives back all its correct meaning to SF_ADDR_SET
and guarantees that when not set no address is allocated, by freeing
that address at the few places the flag is cleared. The flag could
even be removed so that only the address is checked but that would
require to touch many areas for no benefit.
The easiest way to test it is to send requests to a proxy with l7
retries enabled, which forwards to a server returning 500:
defaults
mode http
timeout client 1s
timeout server 1s
timeout connect 1s
retry-on all-retryable-errors
retries 1
option redispatch
listen proxy
bind *:5000
server app 0.0.0.0:5001
frontend dummy-app
bind :5001
http-request return status 500
Issuing "show pools" on the CLI will show that pool "sockaddr" grows
as requests are redispatched, and remains stable with the fix. Even
"ps" will show that the process' RSS grows by ~160B per request.
This fix will need to be backported to 2.4. Note that before 2.5,
there's no strm->si[1].dst, strm->target_addr must be used instead.
This addresses github issue #1499. Special thanks to Daniil Leontiev
for providing a well-documented reproducer.
Plenty of includes were present there only for struct pointers resulting
in them being used from many other places. The LoC reduced again by more
than 1% by cleaning this.
This patch replaces all advanced data type aliases on
stktable_data_cast calls by standard types.
This way we could call the same stktable_data_cast
regardless of the used advanced data type as long they
are using the same std type.
It also removes all the advanced data type aliases.
This basically undoes the API changes that were performed by commit
0274286dd ("BUG/MAJOR: server: fix deadlock when changing maxconn via
agent-check") to address the deadlock issue: since process_srv_queue()
doesn't use the server lock anymore, it doesn't need the "server_locked"
argument, so let's get rid of it before it gets used again.
This reverts commit c83e45e9b0.
The recent changes since 5304669e1 MEDIUM: queue: make
pendconn_process_next_strm() only return the pendconn opened a tiny race
condition between stream_free() and process_srv_queue(), as the pendconn
is accessed outside of the lock, possibly while it's being freed. A
different approach is required.
This basically undoes the API changes that were performed by commit
0274286dd ("BUG/MAJOR: server: fix deadlock when changing maxconn via
agent-check") to address the deadlock issue: since process_srv_queue()
doesn't use the server lock anymore, it doesn't need the "server_locked"
argument, so let's get rid of it before it gets used again.
The server_parse_maxconn_change_request locks the server lock. However,
this function can be called via agent-checks or lua code which already
lock it. This bug has been introduced by the following commit :
commit 79a88ba3d0
BUG/MAJOR: server: prevent deadlock when using 'set maxconn server'
This commit tried to fix another deadlock with can occur because
previoulsy server_parse_maxconn_change_request requires the server lock
to be held. However, it may call internally process_srv_queue which also
locks the server lock. The locking policy has thus been updated. The fix
is functional for the CLI 'set maxconn' but fails to address the
agent-check / lua counterparts.
This new issue is fixed in two steps :
- changes from the above commit have been reverted. This means that
server_parse_maxconn_change_request must again be called with the
server lock.
- to counter the deadlock fixed by the above commit, process_srv_queue
now takes an argument to render the server locking optional if the
caller already held it. This is only used by
server_parse_maxconn_change_request.
The above commit was subject to backport up to 1.8. Thus this commit
must be backported in every release where it is already present.
The current "ADD" vs "ADDQ" is confusing because when thinking in terms
of appending at the end of a list, "ADD" naturally comes to mind, but
here it does the opposite, it inserts. Several times already it's been
incorrectly used where ADDQ was expected, the latest of which was a
fortunate accident explained in 6fa922562 ("CLEANUP: stream: explain
why we queue the stream at the head of the server list").
Let's use more explicit (but slightly longer) names now:
LIST_ADD -> LIST_INSERT
LIST_ADDQ -> LIST_APPEND
LIST_ADDED -> LIST_INLIST
LIST_DEL -> LIST_DELETE
The same is true for MT_LISTs, including their "TRY" variant.
LIST_DEL_INIT keeps its short name to encourage to use it instead of the
lazier LIST_DELETE which is often less safe.
The change is large (~674 non-comment entries) but is mechanical enough
to remain safe. No permutation was performed, so any out-of-tree code
can easily map older names to new ones.
The list doc was updated.
This patch replaces roughly all occurrences of an HA_ATOMIC_ADD(&foo, 1)
or HA_ATOMIC_SUB(&foo, 1) with the equivalent HA_ATOMIC_INC(&foo) and
HA_ATOMIC_DEC(&foo) respectively. These are 507 changes over 45 files.
It is now possible to perform HTTP upgrades on a TCP stream from the
frontend side. To do so, a tcp-request content rule must be defined with the
switch-mode action, specifying the mode (for now, only http is supported)
and optionnaly the proto (h1 or h2).
This way it could be possible to set HTTP directives on a TCP frontend which
will only be evaluated if an upgrade is performed. This new way to perform
HTTP upgrades should replace progressively the old way, consisting to route
the request to an HTTP backend. And it should be also a good start to remove
all HTTP processing from tcp-request content rules.
This action is terminal, it stops the ruleset evaluation. It is only
available on proxy with the frontend capability.
The configuration manual has been updated accordingly.
The code responsible to perform an HTTP upgrade from a TCP stream is moved
in a dedicated function, stream_set_http_mode().
The stream_set_backend() function is slightly updated, especially to
correctly set the request analysers.
These are some leftovers from the ancient code where they were still
called sessions, but these areas in the code remain confusing due to
this naming. They were now called "strm" which will not even affect
indenting nor alignment.
The default proxy was passed as a variable to all parsers instead of a
const, which is not without risk, especially when some timeout parsers used
to make some int pointers point to the default values for comparisons. We
want to be certain that none of these parsers will modify the defaults
sections by accident, so it's important to mark this proxy as const.
This patch touches all occurrences found (89).
The actconns list creates massive contention on low server counts because
it's in fact a list of streams using a server, all threads compete on the
list's head and it's still possible to see some watchdog panics on 48
threads under extreme contention with 47 threads trying to add and one
thread trying to delete.
Moving this list per thread is trivial because it's only used by
srv_shutdown_streams(), which simply required to iterate over the list.
The field was renamed to "streams" as it's really a list of streams
rather than a list of connections.
It's been too short for quite a while now and is now full. It's still
time to extend it to 32-bits since we have room for this without
wasting any space, so we now gained 16 new bits for future flags.
The values were not reassigned just in case there would be a few
hidden u16 or short somewhere in which these flags are placed (as
it used to be the case with stream->pending_events).
The patch is tagged MEDIUM because this required to update the task's
process() prototype to use an int instead of a short, that's quite a
bunch of places.
In stream_add_srv_conn() MT_LIST_ADD() is used instead of MT_LIST_ADDQ(),
resulting in the stream being queued at the end of the server list. This
has no particular effect since we cannot dump the streams on a server,
and this is only used by "shutdown sessions" on a server. But it also
turns out to be significantly faster due to the shorter recovery from
the conflict with an adjacent MT_LIST_DEL(), thus it remains desirable
to use it, but at least it deserves a comment.
In addition to this, it's worth mentioning that this list should creates
extreme contention with threads while almost never used. It should be
made per-thread just like the global streams list.